The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-08
STATE ITEMS.
Events and Incidents Culled From
the L latest Texas Papers.

Rains have been general all over Reeves
county.
The boil worm has made its appearance
in Bonhem county.
Holland has been blessed with plenty of
rain at last, and plenty of stock-water.
} The San Angelo public schools opened
Tuesday with an enrolment of about 25O
pupils.
San Angelo is gaining an enviable rep
utation as the great wool market OF west
ern Texas.
Dallas has been blessed with fine rains
but it is feared it came too late to do the
crops any good.
A son of j. w. Coulter was thrown from
his horse Monday at Bryan, ard received
painful injuries.
Electric light company of Gainesville
succeeded in obtaining artesiGn water at
a depth of 240 feet.
Fine rains have fallen in the vicinity of
San Angelo, and the prospects are hatter-
ing for good range.
A heavy rain fell at Corpus Christi last
Saturday morning, and it was God-send
to that part of the county.
The calf crop at San Angelo this year
is the best known for years. 1t is 40 per
cent. better than last year.
Last Tuesday was black-letter day for
Caldwell cOunty-one man stabbed, one
shot and one killed by horse.
The base ball game in Sherman be-
tween the Hot Springs and Excelsiors re-
suited in victory for the Sherman boys.
Rains have been very frequent during
the past week at Beeville. Almost every
day the town has received good shower
The cotton crop in the vicinity of Tenn
pc is doing well, and the Yield will be
abundant enough to please the yeriest
growler.
Col. j. W. Robbins, of San Angelo, a
prominent stockman of Reeves county,
died suddenly at his ranch on Toyah
creek.
The local option election took place last
Saturday at Hampstead, with the follow
ing result: For the local option law, 49,;
against, 206.
Mechanics in Waco are very cheerful
over the general outlook, as there are now
sixty buildings on the way to completion,
and many more to follow.
Local option was carried at Emory,
Tuesday, by 81 majority. The total vote
was 267. The election passed off with
very little excitement.
Cotton is coming in freely in Dallas,
and the whirr of the gin Is to be heard in
every neighborhood prep airing the feecy
product of the cotton field for market.
The engineer corps came down last
Thurs day to Beeville. They are now To-
eating the line of the branch road from
Beeville in the direction of the Nueces
river.
The Little Jokers, San Antonio base
ball club, went over to Laredo last week
and got badly beaten by the boss nine of
that border town. The score stood 10
to 3.
There was fine rain at Lockhart last
| Wednesday, which will start the grass and
| furnish stock water in abundance. But it
came too late to do the cotton crop much
good.
Mr.. Joe Magee met with very serious
accident a few days since at Lookhart, by
having his hand badly mangled in gin.
He is doing well, under the oircum-
| stances.
Riding over the briny deep by moor-
| light with music from the Italian, is a
pastime in which visitors from the in
terror to Corpus Christi seem to take
great delight.
The plover are plentiful around San
Angelo this season; $500 have already
been killed within the past three weeks,
and like number will be killed before
the season is over.
Lampasas has been visited by fine rains,
but they came too late; but rye and barley
can be sown for winter pasture, and should
next winter be wet one, the pastures
| will be valuable.
Mr.. Harrison Hogg, who lives down or
the Lampasas river, says since the recent
rise in the river immense quantities of
dead fish have fioated down, and the air is
polluted with etfiuvia.
The Navasota Tablet celebrated its nine
teenth birthday last Thursday. As the
Tablet is on firm and sound basis, its
object is to make it one of the leading
country papers of the state.
The stockmen of Beevile seem bent on
having plenty of water for their stock, as
N'AASS SSAAhS LLaSblhSo olS Nv SOhsbaAt
ly at work. Why do not the stockmen of
Travis county do likewise!
Last Thursday evening a difficulty &C
Cured about three miles from Lockhart,
between Thomas Snyder and John Stew
art, in which Stewart was seriously cut
with knife. Snyder has not yet been
arrested.
The Corpus Christi baseball club left
Corpus Christi Friday morning for La
redo to play the nine of the Gate City,
having been invited to friendly contest
by the Laredo boys, who agree to bear all
the expenses.
lady living on Armstrong avenue, in
Derison, attempted suicide by stabbing
herself in the breast with pair of SCISSORS,
and wss only prevented from committing
the rash act by her daughter, who took
the scissors away from her.
Gentry Lane and Tom Hsrdgrove had a
shooting scrape over mower last Satur-
day night at Roxton, which resulted in
Gentry shooting Hsrdgroye in the jaw
and breaking the gun over his head. They
were arrested and brought to Paris for
trial.
Mr.. G. ". Lockhart, Que of the oldest
citizens of Caldwell county, was fatally
shot by Roe Horner. Lockhart fingered